Heesung Kim
Software Engineer at Coupang
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeesung Kim is a seasoned software engineer with 9 years of recent experience in building scalable backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing at Coupang in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven feature engineering pipelines and privacy-aware ML infrastructure at Meta, and earlier led storage and orchestration integrations at VMware and Oracle, reflecting deep expertise in distributed storage, metadata sync, and cloud image services. Proficient in C/C++, Java, and Python, he pairs systems-level thinking on Linux with practical experience across MySQL, NoSQL and big data stacks such as Presto, Spark, and Hadoop. His career spans startups to hyperscale companies, with hands-on work on realtime/batch pipelines, container persistent storage, and automation tools that bridge storage and compute. Notably, he has a track record of shipping complex integrations—like vSAN fileshare and cloud image migration tooling—that quietly enable higher-level services to scale. A Seoul National University CS graduate, he blends low-level performance engineering with large-scale data platform design.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), CS, Bachelor of Science (BS), CS at Seoul National University
Korean, English
Github Skills (93)
parser10
jsoup10
windows10
security10
wake-on-lan10
xss10
profiling10
onem2m10
css-selectors10
capstone10
html-parser10
api10
monitor10
benchmarking10
internals10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hsebs/windows-driver-docs
Apr 2019 - Apr 2023
The official Windows Driver Kit documentation sources
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
driversdriverwindows-driverwindowswindows-driver-kit
hsebs/sdk-api
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:40 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
apiwin32win32-apiapi-documentation
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